Tag: PS without BS

Just a quick blog with a lot of punch to it: Some easy and great ways to clean up Group Policy. What are some of the reasons for this? Well… Your GPO infrastructure may be out of control. You may have forgotten what policies are linked You may have policies that are enforced without settings…

I have to say that I love challenges, especially ones that hold a large benefit at the end. For those who have been following or just outright cyberstalking, I’ve been getting into Server Core a lot more lately, and discovering the benefits that it can hold for not only performance but significant decrease on the…

One of the neat features back in (cough) Windows Server 2003 was the addition of WMI filters to Group Policy. I’m not going to waste a lot of time this morning on a history lesson, but WMI filters in GPO have some valuable benefits, but unfortunately nothing in this life is free. The answer a…

This is a Part 2 from my blog Group membership isn’t consistent in AD Users and Computers. In this blog, I will go though a remediation script on how to set all user accounts to the primary group of “Domain Users”. For more information on the backstory, see the link. Now, to the script. There…

This was an interesting ask, and kind of showcases a couple of different techniques. The ask was to create 20 random users in Active Directory for test purposes. So, I grabbed a list of (debateably) a list of the most common male and female first names and the most common surnames. I then randomize these…

That infamous folder c:\windows\installer can take up a lot of space and resources, more importantly, it’s cryptic when you see a bunch of numbered MSI and MSP files. What is this good for? Well, my favorite reason is that on occasion you can find the MSI of a software package that may require a manual…

In this blog, I will leave you with some scripting snippets on how to manage WSUS: Block 1: Connect to the WSUS server and set the configuration. We are first going to set the property “Download update files to this server only when updates are appoved”, turn off all update languages, and then set the…